- Country: El Salvador
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: WFP
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-02-02
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
In July 2022, WFP El Salvador began the implementation of its new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2022-2027. Based on a comprehensive consultation process and analysis of the main drivers of food security and nutrition in the country, and based on WFP humanitarian assistance, the important themes of building resilience, adaptation to climate change and the modification of food preparation practices and eating habits as priorities for WFP’s program portfolio. Climate change multiplies existing threats to food security and malnutrition, will make natural disasters more frequent and intense, make fertile land and water more difficult to access, and increase agricultural productivity even more difficult. to achieve. It will have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable people, most of whom live in fragile areas prone to climate hazards, ultimately putting their livelihoods at risk, pushing people to seek opportunities in urban areas, often depending on the precarious informal sector or migrating irregularly out of the country.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Carry out specialized and/or standardized activities and processes related to policies and programs in support of the effective delivery of early recovery, resilience and climate change response.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support activities and processes related to the response in early recovery, resilience and climate change, in accordance with WFP policies and operational guidelines.
- Provide project management support and/or country office support taking into account established goals and applying WFP policies and procedures.
- Compile and record useful data to be integrated into required reports and that will serve for operational decision-making within the framework of the response in early recovery, resilience and climate change.
- Teamwork with internal counterparts, to guarantee information management to monitor assigned activities.
- Provide support to communication activities with partners, agencies, NGOs and public institutions at the local level.
- Serve as a point of contact for the resolution of general queries regarding operations and, if necessary, request assistance.
- Follow standard early recovery, resilience and climate change response practices to ensure the country office is in a position to respond effectively and efficiently.
- Support for tasks related to work with implementing partners with whom the office has a working relationship.
- Provide technical assistance to implementing partners to ensure that assistance planning is responsive to WFP objectives and policies.
- As part of the Program Unit, provide support to activities related to strengthening government institutional capacities that work in response to early recovery and resilience.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:
| Specific capacity | Description of expected behavior for the level of competition |
| Program cycle and food assistance | Demonstrates the ability to determine the most important variables and contextual factors that influence assistance projects and programs throughout their execution, in order to inform the design or redesign of quality programs. |
| Transfer modalities (food, cash, coupons) | Demonstrates the ability to implement, following the guidance received, food assistance programs in which the full range of transfer modalities is deployed, thanks to a good knowledge of the basic principles that govern the selection and implementation of the different modalities. |
| Extensive knowledge of areas of specialization | Understands basic technical data and concepts and their relevance to food assistance programs. |
| Emergency programming | Deploys capacity to contribute to the development, implementation and realignment of high-quality emergency programs. |
| Strategic policy collaboration with the
Government |
Understand and apply the basic principles of collaboration with government interlocutors at the national or local level. |
EXPERIENCE TO PERFORM THIS ROLE:
- Minimum 6 years of experience in early recovery, resilience and climate change activities
- Experience in the implementation of community methodologies for the development of needs diagnoses with the population and accountability of the executed programs.
- He has worked at the community level on early recovery, resilience and climate change programs.
- Has facilitated communication with technical teams (e.g. nutrition, resilience, preparedness, vulnerability analysis and mapping (RAM), etc.).
- Has contributed to the implementation of programs and projects.
- Database management, Excel.
- Execution and analysis of budgets and generation of reports.
MINIMUM STANDARD ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: At least having completed the fourth year in one of the following majors: agronomy, international relations, economics, or another relevant field.
Languages: Complete command of Spanish and basic knowledge of the English language.
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